REVIEWS

Critical Legal Studies: The Politics of Law. Edited by David Kairys. [New York: Pantheon Books. 1982. x and 321 pp. Paperback $9·95.] Critical Legal Studies: Law, State and Society. Edited by Bob Fryer, Alan Hunt, Doreen McBarnet and Bert Moorhouse. [London: Croom Helm. 1981. 234 pp. (including name index). Hardback £14·95.] Critical Legal Studies: A Bibliography Critical Legal Studies: The Law Lords. By Alan Paterson. [London: Macmillan. 1982. 287pp. £12.] Critical Legal Studies: The Common Lawyers of Pre-Reformation England: Thomas Kebell, A Case Study. By E. W. Ives. [Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Cambridge Studies in English Legal History). 1983. 536 pp. £40.] Critical Legal Studies: People Against the Press. An Enquiry into the Press Council. By Geoffrey Robertson. [London: Quartet. 1983. 182 pp. (including appendices and index). £7£95.]     

Reviews

Legal Marriage—who Needs it?: The Marriage Contract. By Lenore J. Weitzman. [New York: The Free Press. 1981. 536 pp. (incl. index) $17.95.] Legal Marriage—who Needs it?: Cohabitation Without Marriage. By Michael D. A. Freeman and Christina M. Lyon. [Aldershot, Hants.: Gower, 1983. 228 pp. (incl. index). £15.00.] Legal Marriage—who Needs it?: Unmarried Couples. By Winifred H. Holland. [Toronto: The Carswell Company. 1982. 249 pp. (incl. index) Can.$32.50.] Legal Marriage—who Needs it?: The Family Home. By W. T. Murphy and Hilary Clark. [London: Sweet and Maxwell. 1983. xxi and 229 pp. (incl. index) £6£95 (paperback).] Legal Marriage—who Needs it?: Fundamentals of Securities Regulation. By Louis Loss. [Boston and Toronto: Little Brown and Company. 1983. xxiii and 1353 pp. No price stated.] Legal Marriage—who Needs it?: Economic Realities and the Female Offender. By Jane Roberts Chapman. [Lexington, Massachusetts: Lexington Books. 1980. 234 pp. (incl. bibliog. and index). No price stated.] Legal Marriage—who Needs it?: Girl Delinquents. By Anne Campbell. [Oxford: Basil Blackwell. 1981. 266 pp. Paperback: £4-50.1 Legal Marriage—who Needs it?: The Analysis of Judicial Reform. Edited by Philip L. Dubois. [Lexington: D. C. Heath. 1982. xiv and 221 pp. £18·50.] Legal Marriage—who Needs it?: The Politics of Judicial Reform. Edited by Philip L. Dubois. [Lexington: D. C. Heath. 1982. xi and 187 pp. £18·50.] Legal Marriage—who Needs it?: Prosecution in the Public Interest. By Susan R. Moody and Jacqueline Tombs. [Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press. 1982. xiii and 167 pp. £12·00.] Legal Marriage—who Needs it?: Free Speech: A Philosophical Inquiry. By Frederick Schauer. [Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1982. 237 pp. £ 20·00 (hardback) £6-50 (paperback).] Legal Marriage—who Needs it?: English Law and French Law. By René David. [Stevens/Eastern Law House. 1980. 195 pp. Hardback: £12·50.] Legal Marriage—who Needs it?: La Responsabilité Civile. By André Tunc. [Economica. 1981. 161 pp. Paperback: 65F.]     

Reviews

General Problems of Private International Law. By O. Kahn-Freund. [Leyden: Sijthoff. 1976. 336 pp. Dfl.48·00.] Law in Modern Society. By Roberto Mangabeira Unger. [New York: The Free Press. 1976. ix + 309 pp. $12.95.] Power Law and Society. By Edgar Bodenheimer. [New York: Crane Russak. 1976. vii + 202 pp. No price given.] Fiduciary Obligations. By P. D. Finn. [Sydney: Law Book Co. Ltd. 1977. xxxvii and 299 pp. No price stated.] Computer Law. By Colin Tapper. [Longman Group Limited, London. 1978. 180 pp. + introduction, tables, bibliography and indexes. £6·95.] Alibi. By R. N. Gooderson. [London: Heinemann. 1977. 269 pp. £9·50.] Social Welfare Law. Edited by D. W. Pollard. [Oyez Publishing. 1977. £50 + £1 (postage and packing).] Council Housing. By David Hoath. [Sweet & Maxwell. 1978. (Modern Legal Studies) pp. xix + 169. Hardback: £4·00; Paperback: £2·50.] Fair Rent and Legal Fiction. By Piers Bierne. [Macmillan. 1977. Hardback: £8·95; Paperback: £3·95. pp. xix + 240.] The Homeless and the Empty Houses. By Ron Bailey. Penguin Books. 1977. pp. 287 95p.] Wilkinson's Road Traffic Offences. Ninth Edition. Edited by Patrick Halnan. [Oyez, London, 1977. pp. cvii 931 incl. index. £18·00.] La Contrattazione Collettiva in Italia (1945–1977). Edited by B. Veneziani. [Bari: Cacucci Editore 1978. Lire 6.500. 341 pp.]     

Reviews

Legal Reasoning and Legal Theory. By Neil MacCormick. [Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1978. xi and 292 and (index) 6 pp. £5·75.] Judicial Impact and State Supreme Courts. By G. Alan Tarr. [Lexington, Massachusetts: D. C. Heath and Co. 1977. xvi and 184 pp. (incl. index). About £12.] Perspectives in Jurisprudence. Edited by Elspeth Attwooll. [Glasgow: University of Glasgow Press. 1977. xiii and 236 pp. £7·50.] Law and Society: The Crisis in Legal Ideals. Edited by Eugene Kamenka, Robert Brown and Alice Erh-Soon Tay. [London: Edward Arnold. 1978, x and 137 pp. incl. index. £2·50.] Human Rights. Edited by Eugene Kamenka and Alice Erh-Soon Tay. [London: Edward Arnold. 1978. viii and 148 pp. incl. index. £2·95.] The Sociological Movement in Law. By Alan Hunt. [London: Macmillan. 1978. vi and 185 pp. incl. index. £3·95.] The Sociology of Law: A Conflict Perspective. Edited by Charles E. Reasons and Robert M. Rich. [Toronto: Butterworths. 1978. x and 475 pp. £6·00.] Legal Identity—The Coming of Age of Public Law. By Joseph Vining. [Yale U.P., 214 pp. No price given.] Contracts. Cases, Notes and Materials. By J. Swan and B. J. Reiter. [Toronto: Butterworths. 1978. xxxii and 1130 pp. (inc. index).] Scottish Cases on Contracts. By Enid A. Marshall. [Edinburgh: W. Green & Son, 1978. xviii + 279 + 15 (Appendices). £4·50.] Cases and Materials on Commercial Transactions. By John Goldring, Peter Goldsworthy and Jane Levine, Part 1: Sale of Goods. [Sydney: The Law Book Company Ltd., 1978. xx (tables of contents, cases and statutes) + 231 + 3 (subject-index). Approx. £6·70.] The Law of Unfair Dismissal. By Steven D. Anderman. [London: Butterworths. 1978. xxxvii and 378 (incl. index). Price Bound £12·50, Limp £8·50.] Industrial Injuries Benefits. By Peter Smith. [London: Oyez Publishing 1978. xxv and 183 pp. £8·50.] The Child and the Courts. Edited by Ian F. G. Baxter and Mary A. Eberts. [The Carswell Company Limited, Toronto. 1978. vi and 429 pp. (including indices). $19.50.] Woodfall's Law of Landlord and Tenant. Twenty-eighth edition. By V. G. Wellings, q.c., with G. N. Huskinson (Assistant Editor). [London: Sweet & Maxwell. 1978. Three loose-leaf vols. £95·00.] Spellers' Law Relating to Hospitals and Kindred Institutions. Sixth edition. By Joe Jacob. [London: H. K. Lewis. lvii and 905 pp. Case Bound £25·00.] Discrimination on Grounds of Nationality. By Brita Sundberg-Weitman. [Amsterdam. New York. Oxford: North-Holland Publishing Company. 1977. 235 pp. and (bibliography, table of case-law, and abbreviations) 11 pp.]     

Reviews

A Treatise for our times?: The Law of Torts. 6th edition. By John G. Fleming. [The Law Book Co. Ltd. 1983. £20·00, soft covers.] A Treatise for our times?: The Law of Torts. 7th edition. By H. Street. [Butterworths 1983. £15·95, soft covers.] A Treatise for our times?: States of Emergency. By Keith Jeffrey and Peter Hennessy. [Routledge & Kegan Paul. 1983. viii and 312 pp. £14·95.] A Treatise for our times?: Law, Social Science and Criminal Theory. By Jerome Hall. [Colorado: Fred B. Rothman & Co., New York University School of Law, Criminal Law Education Research Center, Publications Series, Vol. 14. 1982. xvi+333 pp. $39.50.] A Treatise for our times?: Between Conviction and Sentence: The process of mitigation. By Joanna Shapland. [London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. 1981. 167 pp. £10·50.] A Treatise for our times?: Public Rights and Private Interests. By J. A. G. Griffith. [Trivandrum. The Academy of Legal Publications. 1981. 195 pp. Rs. 80; £7·00.]     

Reviews

The Bar on Trial. Edited by R. Hazell. [London: Quartet Books. 1978. 221 pp. (including index). Paperback £1·95.] Violence and the Family. Edited by J. P. Martin. [Wiley. 1978. 369 pp. and index. £11·95.] Family Violence: An International and Interdisciplinary Study. Edited by John M. Eekelaar and Sanford N. Katz. [Butterworths, Canada. 1978. vii and 572 pp. £11·00.] The Modern Law of Family Provision. By John G. Ross Martyn. [Sweet & Maxwell. 1978. xiv + 90 pp. £3·00.] Land Options. By D. G. Barnsley. [Oyez Publishing Limited. London. 1978. xlix and 301 pp. (including 13 pp. index). Hardback. £15·00.] Will Precedents and Capital Transfer Tax. By D. T. Davies. [1978. Butterworths. pp. 213 and xxi. £11·00.] Shipping Law. By Robert Grime. [Concise College Texts, London, Sweet and Maxwell. 1978. xviii and 261 pp. (including index). £5·25.] A Manual of United Kingdom Oil and Gas Law. Edited by Terence Daintith and G. D. M. Willoughby. [London: Oyez Publishing. £40·00.] Trade Practices and Consumer Protection. Second Edition. By G. Q. Taperell, R. B. Vermeesch and D. J. Harland. [Sydney: Butterworths. 1978, xxxv and 732 pp. including index: A21 casebound, A16 limp.] Principles of Sentencing: The sentencing policy of the Court of Appeal Criminal Division. Second edition. By David Thomas. [London: Heinemann. 1979. li and 410 pp. (including table of cases and index). Paperback £7·50 net.] Law-and-Order News: An Analysis of Crime Reporting in the British Press. By Steve Chibnall. [London: Tavistock Publications. xiv and 288 pp. (inc. index). £8·00.] Justice and Journalism: A Study of the Influence of Newspaper Reporting upon the Administration of Justice by Magistrates. By Marjorie Jones. [Chichester and London: Barry Rose Publishers. 180 pp. (inc. index). £3·50.] Rights of Privacy. By John H. F. Shattuck. [Skokie, Illinois: National Textbook Company in conjunction with the American Civil Liberties Union. 1977. xvi and 210 pp. (including index). £4·00.] The Law of Privacy in South Africa. By David Jan McQuoid-Mason. [Cape Town: Juta & Co. Ltd. 1978. xxxviii and 272 pp. (including index). R32·00.] The Legal Sources of Public Policy. By Jay A. Sigler and Benjamin R. Beede. [Lexington Books, Lexington, Massachusetts, Toronto. 184 pp. including index. £12·75.] The Interaction of Economics and the Law. Edited by Bernard H. Siegan. [Lexington Books. 171 pp. £9·00.] The Hidden Economy. By Stuart Henry. [London: Martin Robertson. 1978. 194 pp. Price £7·95 (hard cover.] Commercial Operations in Europe. Edited by R. M. Goode and K. R. Simmonds. [A. W. Sijthoff—Leyden/Boston. pp. xxvii and 445.] An Introductory Guide to EEC Competition Law and Practice. By V. Korah. [Oxford: ESC Publishing Ltd. 1978. 142 pp. including index. £6·75 (£7·20 incl. p. and p.).]     

REVIEWS

The Discipline of the Law . By Lord Denning . [London: Butterworths. 1979. xxii and 330 pp. £4·50.] Selected Writings . By Otto Kahn -Freund . [London: Stevens and Sons under the auspices of the Modern Law Review. 1978. xv and 381 incl. bibliography (no index). Price £10·00.] Textbook of Criminal Law . By Glanville Williams . [Stevens. 1978. Pp. xl and 973. Hardback: £16·00; Paperback: £10·00.] Denial of Justice ; Criminal Process in the United States . By Lloyd L. Weinreb . [The Free Press, Macmillan, New York. 1977, pp. xi and 177 Hardback $12.95.] Legal Services Plans —Approaches to Regulation . By W. Pfennigstorf and S. L. Kimball (editors). [1977. Chicago. American Bar Foundation. xxiv and 662 (including appendices). No price stated.] Consumer Credit . Edited by R. M. Goode . [London: The United Kingdom National Committee of Comparative Law. 1978. xx + 488 pp. £30·41.] The Private International Law of Matrimonial Causes in the British Isles and the Republic of Ireland . By P. M. North . [Amsterdam, New York and Oxford: North-Holland Publishing Co. 1977. xxiii and 465 pp. (with appendices, tables and index). Dfl. 110 00/U.S. $47.95/£27·00.] The Matrimonial Property Act 1976. By R. L. Fisher . [(Butterworths: Wellington N.Z. 1977. pp. xvii + 187 including index, N.Z. $15.00.)] Canadian Family Law : Cases and Materials . Edited by Simon Fodden . [Toronto: Butterworths. 1977. xiv + 889 pp. incl. index, $42.25.] The Law of Weights and Measures . Second Edition. By J. O'Keefe . [Butterworths. 1977. £55·00.] The Patents Act 1977. Queen Mary College Patent Conference Papers . Edited by Mary Vitoria . [Published for the Faculty of Laws, Queen Mary College, University of London by Sweet & Maxwell. 1978. xv and 95 pp. £7·25.] American Conveyancing Patterns . By D. Barlow Burkb Jr . [Lexington Books. 1978. D. C. Heath & Company, Lexington, Mass. p. xiii and 224. Hardback $18.95.] Harmonisation of Private International Law by the EEC. Edited by K. Lipstein . [Published by Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (University of London), 1978. pp. vii, 195. £8·50 paperback.] Sociological Inquiry and Legal Phenomena . By Clive Grace and Philip Wilkinson . [Collier Macmillan. 1978. pp. x + 292 (References and Recommended Reading). £8·50.]     

Book reviews,etc.

Welfare Law and Order. By P. Alcock and P. Harris. [Macmillan Press. 1982. xvi and 219 pp. (inc. index). £5.95.]

Law of Child Care. By B. I. Slomnicka. [Macdonald & Evans. 405 pp. (inc. index). £9.95.]

Swift v. Greenshire County Council, Q.B.D. [Audio‐Visual Department, London University. 40 minutes. Sales prices: (VHS or Sony U‐Matic video cassette + 10 copies of the accompanying documents). Educational institutions in the U.K.: £95 + postage and V.A.T. Government bodies: £150 + postage and V.A.T. Others: £250 + postage and V.A.T. Additional copies of the documents: £2.50 each.

The Sunday Times Case

[Audio‐Visual Centre, University of Warwick. 1981. 16mm colour film. 30 minutes £260 or (hire) £20 for one day + £5 for each day thereafter; video version: £60 + cost of cassette.]

Criminal Procedure. Third edition. By Celia Hampton. [Sweet & Maxwell. 1982. lxi and 472 pp. (inc. index). £16.50 (hardback); £8.95 (paperback).]

The Police in Society. By Ben Whitaker. [Sinclair Browne. 1982. 331 pp. (inc. index). £4.95 (paperback).]

Hanbury and Maudsley's Modern Equity. Eleventh edition. By R. H. Maudsley and Jill E. Martin. [Stevens. 1981. cvi and 796 pp. (inc. index). £27.50 (cloth); £16.50 (paperback).]

Company Law. By Kenneth Smith & D. J. Keenan. Fourth edition. [Pitman, x and 506 pp. (inc. index). £7.50.]

Company Law. By M. C. Oliver. Eighth edition. [Macdonald & Evans. xxx and 386 pp. (inc. index). £3.95.]

Cases in Company Law. Third edition. By M. C. Oliver. I Macdonald & Evans. xv and 396 pp. (inc. index). £4.95.]

Rent Acts and Regulations Amended and Annotated. By J. T. Farrand and A. Arden. Second edition. [Sweet & Maxwell. 1981. xl and 435 pp. (inc. index). £16.50.]

‘O’ Level English Law. By D. M: M. Scott. Fourth edition. [Butterworths. 1981. xvi and 269 pp. (inc. index). £4.95 (paperback).]

‘O’ Level Law. By W. J. Brown. Second edition. [Sweet & Maxwell. 1982. xiv and 227 pp. (inc. index). £4.75 (paperback).]

Danish Law. A General Survey. Edited by Gammeltoft Hansen, Bernhard Gomard and Allan Philip. [G.E.C. Gads, Copenhagen. 395 pp., no index.]     

Reviews

H.L.A. Hart: Jurisprudence and Linguistic Philosophy: Essays in Jurisprudence and Philosophy. By H.L.A. Hart [Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1983. viii and 396 pp. £17.50 cloth, £7.50 Paper.] H.L.A. Hart: Jurisprudence and Linguistic Philosophy: H.L.A. Hart. By Neil MacCormick. [London: Edward Arnold. 1981. 184pp. £9.95 cloth, £4.95 Paper.] H.L.A. Hart: Jurisprudence and Linguistic Philosophy: Policy Arguments in Judicial Decisions. By John Bell. [Oxford: Oxford University Press 1983. xv and 283 pp. £20·00.] H.L.A. Hart: Jurisprudence and Linguistic Philosophy: Justice Without Law? By Jerold S. Auerbach. [Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1983. XV and 182 pp. (including notes and index). Hardback £14·00.]     

The scope and teaching of welfare law: Report of a symposium*

British Nationality Law and The 1981 Act. By Laurie Fransman. [Fourmat Publishing. xiv and 129 pp. (inc. index). £6.25]

Tort: Cases and Materials. Second Edition. By B. A. Hepple and M. H. Matthews. [Butterworths. 1980. xlii and 757 pp. (inc. index). £14.95].

Mercantile Law. By Kenneth Smith and Denis Keenan. Fifth Edition. [Pitman 1982. xiii and 753 pp. (inc. index). £8.95 (paperback)].

The Politics of the Judiciary. Second Edition. By J. A. G. Griffith. [Fontana. 255 pp.(inc. index). £2.50].

Introduction to Law in the Republic of Ireland. By Richard H. Grimes and Patrick T. Horgan. [Wolfhound Press. 368 pp. (inc. index). £10.75].

Family Law in the Republic of Ireland. By Alan Joseph Shatter. Second Edition. [Wolfhound Press. 1981. Distributed outside Ireland by Sweet and Maxwell. xl and 408 pp. (inc. index). £18 (paperback)].     

Reviews

Improving the Protection of Human Rights: European Human Rights Convention in Domestic Law: A Comparative Study. By Andrew Z. Drzemczewski. [Oxford: O.U.P. 1983. xiv and 372 pp. inc. Bibliography, Tables and Index. Hardback: £30.] Improving the Protection of Human Rights: Evaluating Witness Evidence. Edited by S. M. A. Lloyd-Bostock and B. R. Clifford. [Chichester: John Wiley and Sons. 1983. x and 305 pp. £19-95.] Improving the Protection of Human Rights: The Constitution, The Courts, and Human Rights. By Michael J. Perry. [New Haven and London: Yale University Press. 1982. xi and 241 pp. £18-50.     

BOOK NOTES

Scandinavian Studies in Law . 1978. Vol. 22. Edited by Folke Schmidt . [Stockholm: Almqvist and Worksell International. 1978. 265 pp. No price stated.] The Rent Act 1977. By B. S. W. Magnus q.c. [London: Butterworths. 1978. 713 pp. incl. index. £34.00.] The Sale of Flats . Fourth edition. By E. F. George and A. George . [London: Sweet & Maxwell. 1978. 392 pp. incl. index. £11·00.]     

Insurance,the negligent solicitor and the disappointed beneficiary

LEGAL REALISM AT YALE 1927–1960. By Laura Kalman. [University of North Carolina Press, 1986. ISBN 0 8078 1677 9; 314 pp. (inc. index). £33.25.]

A LAMENT FOR THE LAW COMMISSION. by R. T. Oerton. [Countrywise Press Ltd. Hardback 117 pp. £13.50.]

PUBLIC ORDER—THE NEW LAW. By R. CARD. [Butterworths 1987. ISBN 0 406 50440 7.224 pp. £12.50 Gimp).]

PUBLIC ORDER—A GUIDE TO THE 1986 PUBLIC ORDER ACT. By J. Marston. [Fourmat 1987. ISBN 1 85190 024 1.189 pp.]

OFFENCES AGAINST PUBLIC ORDER. By A T. H. Smith. [Sweet &; Maxwell/Police Review 1987. ISBN 0 421 36580 3 326 pp. £14.95 (limp).]

PUBLIC ORDER LAW. By P. Thornton. [Financial Training 1987. ISBN 1 85185 040 6. 266 pp. £10.95 (limp).]

STUDIES IN CONSTITUTIONAL LAW. By Colin R. Munro. [Burterworths. 1987. 220 pp. ISBN 0406 26144 X]

BUSINESS LAW. By N. Savage and R. Bradgate. [Butterworths. 1987. xxx and 541 pp. inc. index.]

SEX, RACE AND THE LAW. By Jeanne Gregory. [Sage Publications. 1987. 216 pp. £7.95 (paperback).]

RAPE ON TRIAL. By Z. Adler. [Routledge and Kegan Paul. 1987. viii and 195 pp.]; RAPE AND THE LEGAL PROCESS. By J. Temkin. [Sweet &; Maxwell. 1987. xx and 221.]

MINORS: THE LAW AND PRACTICE. By Kenneth W. Pain. [Fourmat Publishing. 1987. xvii and 293 pp. (inc. index). £16.95 (paperback).]

COHABITATION: THE LEGAL IMPLICATIONS. By Dawn Oliver [CCH Editions Limited. 1987. xvi and 140 pp. (inc. index). £12.50 (paperback).]

CRIMINAL LAW IN A NUTSHELL. By Marianne Giles. [Sweet &; Maxwell. 1987. 121 pp. £3.95.]

GLOAG AND HENDERSON'S INTRODUCTION TO THE LAW OF SCOTLAND. By A. B. Wilkinson and W. A Wilson. [W. Green and Sons Ltd. 1987. clii and 1020 pp. (inc. index). £45.00.]

SCOTTISH CASES AND MATERIALS IN COMMERCIAL LAW. By Douglas J. Cuisine and Angelo D. M. Forte. [Butterworths. 1987. xxvi and 396 pp. (inc. index). £23.95.]     

Evaluating class participation: Some reflections on the university of New South Wales and Macquarie university experience

FRIDMAN ON TORTS. By G. H. L. Fridman. [Waterlow Publishers. First edition. 607 pp. incl. index. £85.00 (hardback).]

TEXTBOOK ON LABOUR LAW. By John Bowers and Simon Honeyball [Blackstone Press. 385 + 52 pp. £17.95.]

EMPLOYMENT LAW. By Tom Harrison. [Business Education Publishers Limited. 1990. 373 pp. £13.95 (paperback).]

BUSINESS LAW. By Denis Keenan and Sarah Riches. [Pitman. 1990. Second edition, xviiv &; 391 pp. (paperback).]

SMITH AND KEENAN'S COMPANY LAW. By Denis Keenan. [Pitman. 1990. Eighth edition, xx &; 460 pp. £14.99 (paperback).]

COMPANY LAW. By Mayson French and Ryan. [Blackstone Press. 1990. Seventh edition, lxxviii and 639 pp. £21.95 (paperback).]

THE LAW OF CORPORATE INSOLVENCY. By Ian Snaith. [Waterlow. 1990. First edition. 783 pp. £70.00 (hardback).]

CRIMINAL LAW: REVISION WORKBOOK. Editor F. R. Sampson. [H.L.T. Publications. 1990. First edition. 221 pp. £9.95 (paperback).]

CRIMINAL EVIDENCE STATUTES AND MATERIALS. By J. A. Andrews. [Waterlow Publishers. 1990. 223 pp. incl. index. £19.95 (paperback).]

EDUCATION AND THE LAW. Edited by Auson Wolfg Arteh Geoffrey Bennett and John Dunford. [Longmans. £30 per annum.]

CHILDREN AND THE LAW. By D. Freestone (Editor). [Hull University Press. 332 pp. incl. index, (hardback).]

TEXTBOOK ON INTERNATIONAL LAW. By Martin Dixon. [Blackstone. 1990. First edition. 248 pp. incl. index. £14.95 (paperback).]

PRINCIPLES OF PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW. By Ian Brownlie. [Clarendon Press. Oxford. 1990. Fourth edition. 748 pp. incl. index. £55.00 (hardback), £25.00 (paperback).]     

Reviews

Books reviewed:
Hodges, Multi-Party Actions
Katz et al., Cross Currents: Family Law and Policy in the US and England
Paulus, Die internationale Gemeinschaft in Völkerrecht
Norrie, Punishment, Responsibility, and Justice: A Relational Critique
Bell, Peace Agreements and Human Rights
Powell, Sir James Whitelock's Liber Famerlicus 1570–1632: Law and Politics in Early Stuart England
Clam, Droit et société chez Niklas Luhmann. La contingence des normes     

Corporate Governance: A Defence of the Status Quo

J.E. Parkinson, Corporate Power and Responsibility: Issues in the Theory of Company Law , Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993, xxv + 464 pp, hb £50.00, pb £19.95.     

Industrial safety: The political challenge∗

The Philosophical Origins of Modern Contract Doctrine. JAMES GORDLEY. Oxford. 1991. The Clarendon Press. 263 pp. £35 hb; £16.99 pb.

A History of the Anglo‐American Common Law of Contract. KEVIN M. TEEVEN. New York. 1990. Greenwood Press, xii + 382 pp.

Legal Fiction: Law in the Novels of Nineteenth Century Women Novelists. KATHLEEN LONCAR. London. 1995. Minerva Press. 266pp. (inc Index). £7.99 pb. ISBN 1 85863 668 X.

Adversaria: Literature and Law. E.J. HINZ, T. ANDERSON AND A. McGILLIVRAY (eds.) [Special Issue of Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature, vol.27 no.4 ‐ December 1994] Winnipeg. 1994. University of Manitoba, ix + 230 pp. $20 pb. ISSN 0027–1276.

The Independence of the Judiciary. The View from the Lord Chancellor's Office. ROBERT STEVENS. Oxford. 1993. Clarendon Press, xii + 221 pp (incl. index). £27.50 hb. ISBN 0 19 825815 1

Marriage, Property and Law in Late Imperial Russia. WILLIAM G. WAGNER. Oxford. 1994. Clarendon Press. xiv+413pp (incl. Index) £45 hb. ISBN 0–19–820447–7.     

Reviews

Separated Spouses. By O. R. McGregor, L. Blom Cooper and C. Gibson. [London: Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd. 1970. xvii and 277 pp. £8.00.] Law relating to Owners and Occupiers of Land. By A. J. Hawkins. Le Régime Juridique des Titres de Sociétés en Europe et aux Etats-Unis: The Legal Status of Securities in Europe and the United States. Institut d'Etudes Europeennes, Université Libre de Bruxelles. Les Emissions de Titres de Société en Europe et aux Etats-Unis: Corporate Securities Markets in Europe and the United States. Prison Before Trial: A study of remand decisions in Magistrates' Courts. By A. Keith Bottomley. Occasional Papers in Social Administration, Number 39. Key Issues in Criminology. By Roger Hood and Richard Sparks. [London: World University Library, Weidenfeld and Nicolson. International Law. By D. P. O'Connell. Second Edition. Essays on Human Rights. Edited by K. J. Keith. UN Protection of Civil and Political Rights. By John Carey. Basic Documents on Human Rights. Edited by Ian Brownlie. The Law of Treaties. A Guide to the Legislative History of the Vienna Convention. By Shabtai Rosenne. European Law Libraries Guide. Edited by Elizabeth M. Moys. Sources of International Uniform Law. Vol. 1: Private and Commercial Law. Edited by Konrad Zweigert and Jan Kropholler.     

Recent legal developments

AN INTRODUCTION TO THE LAW OF TRUSTS. By Simon Gardner. [Clarendon Press. Oxford. 1990. First Edition. 250 pp. £25.00 (hardback), £11.95 (paperback).]

EXPLAINING CONSTRUCTIVE TRUSTS. By Gbolahan Elias. [Clarendon Press. Oxford. 1990. First Edition. 177 pp. £25.00 (hardback).]

CHARLESWORTH &; PERCY ON NEGLIGENCE. By R. A. Percy. [Sweet &; Maxwell. Eighth Edition. 1,232 pp. incl. index. £135.00 (hardback).]

CLARITY FOR LAWYERS. By Mark Adler. [The Law Society. 1990. First edition. 128 pp. £10.00 (paperback).]

PLANNING LAW AND PROCEDURE. By A. E. Telling. [Butterworths. Eighth edition. 385 pp. incl. index. £16.95 (paperback).]

PRACTICAL APPROACH TO PLANNING LAW. By V. Moore. [Blackstone Press Ltd. Second edition. 401 pp. incl. index &; appendices. £19.95 (paperback).]

THE EVIDENCE OF CHILDREN. By J. R. Spencer and R. Fun. [Blackstone Press. 1990. 362 pp. £19.50 (paperback).]

CROSS ON EVIDENCE. By C. Tapper. [Butterworths. 1990. Seventh edition. 757 pp. £22.95 (paperback).]

EMPLOYMENT LAW. By C. J. Carr and P. J. Kay. [M. &; E. Handbook. Pitman Publishing. 1990. Fifth edition, xxiv &; 232 pp. (inc. index). £7.99 (paperback).]

REVISION WORKBOOK: LAND LAW. By Gordon Henry.

A PARENTS’ GUIDE TO THE LAW. By Jeannie Mackie and Lesley Taylor [Penguin Books. 1990. 419 pp. (inc. index). £7.99 (paperback).]

A GUIDE TO INHERITANCE CLAIMS. By Nasreen Pearce. [Fourmat Publishing. 1989. 162 pp. £12.95 (paperback).]